Seibou Surname
Approximately 7,381 people bear this surname
Seibou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 5,060 | 1:2,043 | 249 |
| Niger | 1,077 | 1:17,820 | 1,152 |
| Togo | 840 | 1:8,628 | 2,051 |
| Cameroon | 339 | 1:61,266 | 7,839 |
| Ivory Coast | 30 | 1:769,041 | 20,891 |
| Burkina Faso | 12 | 1:1,529,342 | 12,810 |
| France | 7 | 1:9,488,960 | 336,266 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
The alternate forms: Seïbou (561), Seîbou (36) & Séïbou (1) are calculated separately.
Seibou (4,612) may also be a first name.
Seibou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Seibou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Seibou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻴﺒﻮ) occurs most in Benin. It may be found as a variant: Seïbou, Seîbou or Séïbou. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Seibou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 67,429th most common family name internationally It is held by around 1 in 987,339 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Seibou live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 80 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Seibou is also the 101,037th most commonly used first name in the world, held by 4,612 people.
This last name is most frequent in Benin, where it is carried by 5,060 people, or 1 in 2,043. In Benin Seibou is primarily concentrated in: Donga Department, where 64 percent live, Alibori Department, where 16 percent live and Borgou Department, where 8 percent live. Outside of Benin Seibou is found in 15 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 15 percent live and Togo, where 11 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Seibou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Seibou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻴﺒﻮ | sybw | 62.5 |
| ﺳﻴﺐ | syb | 25 |
| ﺳﻮﻳﺒﻮ | swybw | 12.5 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Seibou
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